TY - GEN
T1 - Identifying design requirements of a user-centered research data management system
AU - Bugaje, Maryam
AU - Chowdhury, Gobinda
N1 - This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04257-8_35
PY - 2018/11/15
Y1 - 2018/11/15
N2 - Research data repositories perform many useful functions, the key ones being the storage of research datasets, and making the same discoverable for potential reuse. Over the years, various criteria for assessing the user-centeredness of information systems have been developed and standards have gradually been improved. However, there has been less development in case of research data management (RDM) systems. By means of a combination of user-focused research methods viz. questionnaire surveys, face-to-face interviews, a systematic appraisal of existing services and a technical experiment, we have sought to understand the meaning of user-centeredness pertaining to research data repositories, and identify some key indicators of it. We have furthermore translated our findings into design requirements based on which we propose to develop and test a prototype of a user-centered RDM system. This paper reports on how we identified the design requirements that would make the RDM systems more user-centered.
AB - Research data repositories perform many useful functions, the key ones being the storage of research datasets, and making the same discoverable for potential reuse. Over the years, various criteria for assessing the user-centeredness of information systems have been developed and standards have gradually been improved. However, there has been less development in case of research data management (RDM) systems. By means of a combination of user-focused research methods viz. questionnaire surveys, face-to-face interviews, a systematic appraisal of existing services and a technical experiment, we have sought to understand the meaning of user-centeredness pertaining to research data repositories, and identify some key indicators of it. We have furthermore translated our findings into design requirements based on which we propose to develop and test a prototype of a user-centered RDM system. This paper reports on how we identified the design requirements that would make the RDM systems more user-centered.
KW - information retrieval
KW - metadata
KW - research data management
KW - research data repositories
KW - scientific data
KW - user-centered design
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UR - https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/en/publications/identifying-design-requirements-of-a-usercentered-research-data-management-system(2ee9b59c-813b-446d-a40f-9acbd7ff5cb2).html
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-04257-8_35
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-04257-8_35
M3 - Conference contribution book
AN - SCOPUS:85057246625
SN - 9783030042561
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 335
EP - 347
BT - Maturity and Innovation in Digital Libraries - 20th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2018, Proceedings
A2 - Žumer, Maja
A2 - Hinze, Annika
A2 - Dobreva, Milena
PB - Springer-Verlag
CY - Cham, Switzerland
T2 - 20th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2018
Y2 - 19 November 2018 through 22 November 2018
ER -